Digest>Mar/Apr 2021

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Virginia’s 1853 Hog Island Lighthouse, offshore from Northampton County, where James G. Williams served as the keeper from 1908 to 1911. When the lighthouse was threatened by erosion in 1948, the Coast Guard blew it up. The site is now underwater. (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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Seven Light Keepers Honored by Chesapeake Lighthouse Group
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